pancake
Pronunciation: /ˈpæn.keɪk/
The English word “pancake” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened.
- A leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- An attractive young woman.
verb
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen…
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